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J. F. TAYLOR.

COMBINED HOISTING BUCKET AND DUMPING GAR.

No. 252,542. Fig.4 Patented'Jan. 17,1882.

WITNESSES: mvnmom I V L B 1 ATTORNEYS.

iJNtTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. TAYLOR, OF SHARON SPRINGS, NEW YORK.

COMBINED HOISTING-BUCKET AND DUMP-OAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,542, dated January 17, 1882.

Application filed June 4, 1881.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. TAYLOR, of Sharon Springs, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Hoisting-Bucket and Dump-Gar,ofwhich thefollowingisafull,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and convenient device for unloading, transporting, and dumping cargoes of guano, sand, and other bulk cargoes from vessels.

The invention consists of a bucket provided with trunnions, and thereby removably fixed on a car-frame, so that it can be hoisted therefrom and lowered into a vessel to be filled, and then be replaced in position and transported on the car to a place for unloading, when it can be turned upside down on its trunnions and be thereby emptied.

Figure 1 is a plan of my improved combined hoisting-bucket and car. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same with parts broken away to exhibit other parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents thecar-t'rame, B the journal-boxes, O the axles, and D the wheels. Centrally on the sides of the car are secured the trunnion-beds E E.

F represents the bucket, provided with trunnions G,that are fixed on a band, G, that encircles the bucket F, and thatrest in the trunnionbeds E E, and thereby support said bucket F in an upright position, as shown.

On the rim of the bucket F are two opposite strong lugs,'H H, into which the chain-hooks (not shown) are engagedwhen it is designed trouble and loss of time.

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to lift said bucket F from the car and lower it into a vessel to receive a load.

When used as a car the bucket F is put in position in the trunnion-beds E, as shown, and then may be moved in any direction, preferably on the rails I, the trunnious Gr readily adjusting themselves in the trunnion-beds G because of 5 the V-shaped throats a of the latter.

When used as a dumpcar the bucket F is turned upside down on its trunnion G, and its load thereby discharged, when ,it may be restored to its primary position, the bucket F forming in effect the body of the car.

In usingthe ordinarycargo-unloadin gbucket a great deal of the material, it it be guano, for instance, is blown away or sifts out and is lost when hoisting and emptying the bucket into a car, and the hinges and bolts of an ordinary hoisting and dumping bucket become quickly clogged with the material, and thereby cause In this device these troubles are avoided.

1am aware thatbuckets have been trunnioned in bearings on a truck-frame; but they are not, like mine, intended or adapted to be lowered into a vessels hold, filled, hoisted, dropped in bearings on the car-frame, run off to a warehouse, and dumped.

What I claim is The combination, with the bucket F, provided with the trunnions G, of the trunnion-beds E, having V-shaped tracks a, and secured upon the upper edge of the car-frame A, substantial] y as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN FISHER TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

R. J. MALLET'I, I. A. DOOKSTADER. 

